We believe business can be a force for good. Through our Best for Colorado program, we bring together leaders from all sectors to create solutions for our most pressing social, environmental, and economic challenges.

We are the place where citizens gather together to scale up the sustainability movement. Through our Civics in Action program, we amplify the voices of people and organizations that are building a better future.

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Best for Colorado Networking & Information Breakfast

Best for Colorado is a community-led program and awards campaign to inspire, equip, and celebrate businesses that create higher quality jobs, build stronger communities, and preserve a healthier environment through their business operations, products and/or services. Come and join a community of like-minded individuals at various stages of their corporate social responsibility, willing to share lessons learned and best practice information.

Enjoy breakfast and hear directly from business leaders about this powerful program and awards campaign.

During this networking event, attendees will:

Learn how building a better business will attract and engage employees, and strengthen their bottom-line

Learn how to set a baseline for their business’ impact, network and learn from peer business owners

Learn more about the Best For Colorado program, the free assessment, free resources and ways in which the program can support you in your corporate social responsibility journey.

After this breakfast, attendees will walk away with:

An understanding of how to participate in the Best for Colorado program

Specific information for how the Best for Colorado program can help you in your corporate social responsibility journey

What is Toastmasters?Toastmasters meetings are comprised of members and guests who meet weekly for an hour or two. Participants practice and learn skills by filling a meeting role, ranging from giving a prepared speech or an impromptu one to serving as timer, evaluator or grammarian. There is no instructor; instead, each speech and meeting is critiqued by a member in a positive manner, focusing on what was done right and what could be improved.

Date/Time: Every Wednesday from 12:30pm sharp to 1:30pm

We encourage you to stop by and observe one of our meetings. After that experience, we are confident you will be able to decide if becoming a member would be personally beneficial to you.

What is Toastmasters?Toastmasters meetings are comprised of members and guests who meet weekly for an hour or two. Participants practice and learn skills by filling a meeting role, ranging from giving a prepared speech or an impromptu one to serving as timer, evaluator or grammarian. There is no instructor; instead, each speech and meeting is critiqued by a member in a positive manner, focusing on what was done right and what could be improved.

Date/Time: Every Wednesday from 12:30pm sharp to 1:30pm

We encourage you to stop by and observe one of our meetings. After that experience, we are confident you will be able to decide if becoming a member would be personally beneficial to you.

In this free Skillful webinar, you’ll learn how skills-based job postings can help you find the talent your company needs to succeed. You’ll also learn how Skillful’s newest tool, the Skillful Job Posting Generator, can help you craft skills-based job postings.

Too many organizations rely traditional employment practices, which rely heavily on proxies for skills like a candidate’s degrees, their past job titles, and the interviewer’s subjective evaluation. These practices are inefficient, inexact, and leave capable candidates on the sidelines.

Skillful encourages employers to instead use skills-based practices, which focus on the skills needed to do a job. By focusing on skills, you can gain a competitive edge by:• Reducing time to hire by deepening the talent pool• Improving retention by attracting candidates with the right skills for the job• Increasing diversity by focusing both the person hiring and the person seeking a job on skills, rather than proxies like degrees which can unnecessarily eliminate capable candidates

What is Toastmasters?Toastmasters meetings are comprised of members and guests who meet weekly for an hour or two. Participants practice and learn skills by filling a meeting role, ranging from giving a prepared speech or an impromptu one to serving as timer, evaluator or grammarian. There is no instructor; instead, each speech and meeting is critiqued by a member in a positive manner, focusing on what was done right and what could be improved.

Date/Time: Every Wednesday from 12:30pm sharp to 1:30pm

We encourage you to stop by and observe one of our meetings. After that experience, we are confident you will be able to decide if becoming a member would be personally beneficial to you.

If you’re like most companies, you are struggling to find the skilled workforce your company needs. Traditional hiring methods might be preventing you from hiring the talent you need. Traditional methods of screening and selecting talent can eliminate up to 99% of available talent.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to focus your job posting on the skills candidates need to succeed, broaden your talent pools to all qualified applicants, reduce bias in your job postings, and source and recruit the talent you’re struggling to find. By making these easy, straightforward updates to your hiring process, you’ll: hire better candidates, speed up time to hire, increase retention, and increase candidate diversity.

What is Toastmasters?Toastmasters meetings are comprised of members and guests who meet weekly for an hour or two. Participants practice and learn skills by filling a meeting role, ranging from giving a prepared speech or an impromptu one to serving as timer, evaluator or grammarian. There is no instructor; instead, each speech and meeting is critiqued by a member in a positive manner, focusing on what was done right and what could be improved.

Date/Time: Every Wednesday from 12:30pm sharp to 1:30pm

We encourage you to stop by and observe one of our meetings. After that experience, we are confident you will be able to decide if becoming a member would be personally beneficial to you.

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